8 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
A. io Gray in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. i. 524 (1876) and 
Syn. Fl. ii. pt. I. 198 (1886), in part; Greene, Man. Bay-Region 
262 (1894): ibe Fl. W. Middle Cal. ed. 2, 350 (1911), not 
Lehm.; A. spectabilis Abrams, F]. Los Ang. 33 5 (1911), in part, 
not F. ‘& “i oa = Along the seaboard, north to Sonoma County. — 
CALIFORNIA: Bodega Bay, Sono ma Co., May 27, 1902, er, no. 
_5614; Angel ee g Baty ’ Francisco Bay, Vasey; and April 12, 
~T904, Mulliken, no. 92 (R. Mt. Herb.); Bodega Point, June 29, 
1915, Eastwood, nos. 4798, 4798a; Lone Mt. near San Francisco, 
March 27, Ke llo ogg & Harford, no. 758 (Mo. Bot. Gard.); coast 
west of Watsonville, eo. Cruz Co., April 14, 1903, Baker, no. 
1952; San Simeo San Luis Obispo Co. "1876, "Palmer, no. 
370; Cypress Point Monsey Co., July, 1884, Ball: coast at 
Wilm mington, Los Angeles Co., 1885, Nevin; stems decumbent, 
grassy places in park, gee Diego, Feb. 22, 1916, Mary F. Spencer; 
San Diego, May 4, 1895, Belle Sumner Angier, n o. 80 (Mo. Bot. 
Gard.); San Nicolas IslendeRoeil 1 1901, Blanche Trask, no. 59. 
The name Amsinckia intermedia has been applied to various 
plants but in its essential characters the seaboard species of central 
and southern California is the only plant occurring at Bodega Point, 
the type locality, that agrees at all closely with Fischer and Meyer’s 
description. Miss Eastwood, |. ¢., in comparing her species with 
A. lycopsoides erred in regarding the description by Fischer and 
Meyer (I. ¢.) as’ the original characterization. The latter species 
was published by Lehman as Lithospermum lycopsoides, Pug. ii. 28 
(1830), and according to Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 89 (1838) was 
based on specimens by Scouler from “ Straits of de Fuca.’’ That 
this is correct seems quite probable because the only specimens I 
have seen that accord with Lehman’s complete diagnosis have 
come from the coastal region of northwestern Washington. This 
plant is evidently not the same as the coast-plant of California. 
A. lycopsoides F. & M. with “ corolla fauce barbata ” has not been 
identified unless Miss Eastwood, l. c., is correct in referring to it a 
collection she made in Alameda County. If the feature ‘“ corolla 
with bearded throat ” is constant this plant would seem to need a 
name but according to Gray’s observations, Proc. Am Acad. x. 53 
(1875), the character is reciprocal to the insertion of the stamens 
and the length of the style. Fischer and Meyer’s A. lycopsoides, 
seervlory, would appear to be a condition of A. intermedia with 
‘‘staminibus corollae tubo paulo supra basin insertis ” and long 
style. Heller’s collection no. 5614 from Bodega Point exhibits 
